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Disruptive Innovation
Disrupting Class - Student-Centric Education id the Future This is a summary of how disruptive innovation will change the way the world learns!!!!

media type="custom" key="5342493" Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. It connects very well with the ideas of disruptive innovation. The disenfranchised who are often those who make best use of innovations. It also supports the arguments around motivation being the dividing factor for success. When extrinsic motivation is missing - intrinsic motivation becomes of prime importance. When learning is interesting and fun - the kids are there and make sense of things themselves.

Some interesting reading and resources. Check out the Education tab. http://www.thinkbeyond.co.nz/home.html

[|Authentic Learning Paper] - A paper on Authentic Learning for the 21st Century

This is an interesting article about Thinking and Internet usage. "[|Is Google making us stupid?]"

[|The Literacy Debate: Online, RU really reading?] Article from the NY Times

[|high leverage strategies for Principal Leadership]